URI operates one of the
finest
deep-ocean
research ships in the world. We have a machine shop, electronics
engineers,
and a marine technician support group. We are leaders in
ocean-instrument
development: state-of-the-art equipment includes moored current meter
arrays,
subsurface RAFOS neutral-buoyancy floats tracked using moored sound
sources,
free-fall Lagrangian velocity profilers, Inverted Echo Sounders (IES,
acoustic
probes of ocean thermal structure), including bottom pressure recorders
(PIES), and the latest shipboard hydrographic survey electronics.

In the laboratory we study
experimental
rotating and stratified fluid motions, as well as problems on
convection
of viscous fluids, using a variety of flow visualization techniques.

The Physical Oceanography
Group
operates
and manages resources for high-performance computing and communication,
scientific visualization, and computer graphics. These facilities
include a supercomputer and an ever-evolving suite of networked
workstations.

The comprehensive
marine library
includes
the U.S. National Sea Grant Depository. Opportunities exist for close
interaction
with staff in other oceanographic disciplines and at the adjacent
National
Marine Fisheries Service, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the
nearby Navy laboratories.